King of Forgiveness

Beneath the iron crown

I am hollowed down

They name me lord of ruin,

a wraith across the stone

Call me their phantom ruler,

but I bleed here alone

The dark plague took my darling,

she withered in my hands

Then fury made me strike down blood on our own lands A

brother to my mother,

lost beneath my rage Now locked inside the iron of a crown

I cannot gauge

I'm just a flesh and bone man pleading for the light Begging

for mercy through the dead of night

Let me lay this heavy iron down

Find my babies before the sun goes down To hold their faces

and finally say I love you more than all that broke away

Behind this blackened armor,

my heart is ticking slow

Searching every valley where the winter weeds still grow

I carried so much poison,

I let the terror spread

Forgive the trembling hands that built a palace of the dead

I don't desire dominion,

I don't desire the throne Just to wash these sins away and

walk my children home

I'm just a flesh and bone man pleading for the light Begging

for mercy through the dead of night

Let me lay this heavy iron down

Find my babies before the sun goes down To hold their faces

and finally say I love you more than all that broke away

Take the legend, break the fear

Let them know their father's here

No dark lord, no phantom king Just a father kneeling,

listening (ahhhh)

I love you

I'm coming home